CV Markus Walzl
CV - 03/2024
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Walzl, Dipl.-Phys.
Full Professor in Economics
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Department of Economics
Universitätsstrasse 15
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Education
• Habilitation: RWTH Aachen, Germany, April 2008, Venia legendi: Economics
• PhD: Dr. rer.pol., RWTH Aachen, Germany, December 2003
• Diplom Physiker (equiv. of MSc Physics), Bonn University and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, October 2000
• October 1995 - October 2000: Diploma Study in Physics as well as Mathematics and Philosophy for Secondary School Teachers (First Study Phase - Grundstudium) Bonn University, Germany.
• Born 5-10-1974 in Königswinter, Germany
• Citizenship: German
Employement
• since March 2017: Dean, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Innsbruck University, Austria.
• since March 2011: Full Professor, Innsbruck University, Austria.
• March 2009-February 2011: Full Professor (W2), Bamberg University, Germany.
• November 2008 - February 2012: Founder and Co-Owner CA Communication Consulting, Cologne, Germany.
• October 2008 - February 2009: Associate Professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
• March 2008- June 2008: Guest Professor, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• September 2003 - September 2008: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
• May 2001 - August 2003: Research Assistant and PhD Student, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
• October 2000 - April 2001: Research Assistant, FZ Jülich, Germany.
Publications (Peer-Review)
1. Ulrichshofer, A. and M. Walzl (2024), A Labor Market for Persuaders: Theory and Evidence from Financial Advice, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 180, 187–209. DOI: 10.1628/jite-2023-0036
2. Stefan, M., J. Huber, M. Kirchler, M. Sutter, and M. Walzl (2023), Monetary and social incentives in multi-tasking: The ranking substitution effect, European Economic Review, Volume 156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.
3. Klijn, F., M.Walzl, and C. Kah (2021), Almost mutually best in matching markets: Rank gaps and size of the core, Social Choice and Welfare 57, 797-816. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-021-01312-3
4. Bannier, C., E.Feess, N.Packham and M.Walzl (2020), Differentiation and Risk Aversion in Imperfectly Competitive Labor Markets, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 177 (1), 1-27. DOI: 10.1628/jite-2020-0044
5. Feess, E., Grund, C., Walzl, M., Wohlschlegel, A. (2020), Competing Trade Mechanisms and Monotone Mechanism Choice. European Journal of Operations Research 280(3), 1108-1121. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.08.013
6. Sutter, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M.,Walzl, M. (2020), Where to look for the Morals in Markets, Experimental Economics 23, 30–52. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-019-09608-z
7. Peeters, R., M. Strobel, D. Vermeulen, and M. Walzl (2016), The Impact of the Irrelevant – An Experimental Investigation into Anchoring in Online-Auctions, Games 7(1). DOI: 10.3390/g7010008
8. Peeters, R., M. Vorsatz and M.Walzl (2015), Beliefs and Truth-Telling: A Laboratory Experiment, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 113, 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.009
9. Sebald, A. and M. Walzl (2015), Optimal Contracts based on Subjective Performance Evaluation and Reciprocity, Journal of Economic Psychology 47, 62-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2015.01.004
10. Sebald, A. and M. Walzl (2014), Subjective performance evaluations and reciprocity in principal-agent relations, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 116(2), 570-590. DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12045
11. Peeters, R., M. Vorsatz, and M. Walzl (2013), Truth, Trust and Sanctions: On Institutional Selection in Sender-Receiver Games, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 115, 508-548. DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12003
12. Bochet, O., B. Klaus, and M. Walzl (2011), Dynamic Recontracting Processes with Multiple Indivisible Goods, Journal of Mathematical Economics 47(1), 84-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.08.014
13. Klaus,B, F. Klijn, and M. Walzl (2011): Farsighted Stability for Roommate Markets, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13 (6), 921–933. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2011.01525.x
14. Feess, E., M. Schieble and M. Walzl (2011), Why it Pays to Conceal – On the Optimal Timing of Acquiring Verifiable Information, German Economic Review 12(1), 100-123. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00506.x
15. Klaus, B., F. Klijn, and M. Walzl (2010), Stochastic Stability for Roommate Markets, Journal of Economic Theory 145(6), 2218-2240. DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2010.07.006
16. Klaus, B. F. Klijn, and M. Walzl (2010): ”Farsighted Stability for Housing Markets,”Journal of Mathematical Economics 46, 817-824. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.06.006
17. Feess, E. and M. Walzl (2010), Evidence Dependence of Fine Reductions in Corporate Leniency Programs, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 166(4), 573-590. DOI: 10.1628/093245610793524910
18. Alos-Ferrer, C., G. Kirchsteiger, and M. Walzl (2010), On the Evolution of Market Institutions – The Platform Design Paradox, Economic Journal 120, 215-243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02297.x
19. Klaus, B. and M.Walzl (2009), Stable Many-to-Many Matching with Contracts, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 45 (7-8), 422-434. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2009.03.007
20. Peeters, R., M. Vorsatz and M. Walzl (2008), Rewards in Experimental Sender-Receiver Games, Economics Letters, 101, 148-150. DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.07.016
21. Feess, E., G. Muehlheusser, and M.Walzl (2008), Unfair Contests, Journal of Economics, 93(3), 267-291. DOI: 10.1007/s00712-007-0308-9
22. Feess, E. and M. Walzl (2006), Heterogeneity and Optimal Self-Reporting, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 162 (2), 277-290. DOI: 10.1628/093245606777583558
23. Feess, E., S. Ossig, and M.Walzl (2005), The Impact of Truth Telling and LimitedWealth in a Principal- Agent Model, Schmalenbach Business Review (Zeitschrift f¨ur Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung), 57, 29-45.
24. Feess, E. and M.Walzl (2005), Optimal Self-Reporting Schemes with Multiple Stages and Option Values, International Tax and Public Finance 12, 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/s10797-005-0495-7
25. Feess, E. and M. Walzl (2004), Optimal Law Enforcement and Self-Reporting when there are Criminal Teams, Economica 71, 333-348. DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-0427.2004.00374.x
26. Feess, E. and M. Walzl (2004), Delegated Expertise - When are Good Projects Bad News? Economics Letters 82, 77-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2003.05.001
27. Walzl, M. and U. Meissner (2001), Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Physics Letters B 513, 37-45. DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00727-4
28. Walzl, M., U. Meissner, and E.Epelbaoum (2001), Charge Dependent Nucleon-Nucleon Potential from Chiral Effective Field Theory, Nuclear Physics A 693, 663-692. DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9474(01)00969-1
29. Walzl, M. (2000), Isospin Violation in the Two-Nucleon System, Acta Phys.Polon. B 31 2709-2713.
Collected Volumes
1. Muenster, G. and M.Walzl (2000), Lattice Gauge Theory: A Short Primer, in: Zuoz2000, Phenomenology of Gauge Interactions: 127-160.
Books
1. Walzl, M. (2007), The Economics of Market Platforms: Stability, Evolution, and Behavior, Habilitation Thesis, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
2. Walzl, M. (2003), Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement against Criminal Teams, Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
3. Walzl, M. (2000), Charge Dependent Nucleon-Nucleon Potential from Chiral Effective Field Theory, Diploma Thesis, Fz Juelich and University of Bonn, Germany.
Reports
1. Maurer, O. and M.Walzl (2009), A review of ‘Restrictions on the parallel importation of books’, Research Report by the Productivity Commission of the Australian Government.
2. Feess, E., M. Thomas, and M. Walzl (2003), An Economic Analysis of Slot Allocations at European Airports, Lufthansa AG, Frankfurt, Deutschland.
Manuscripts and Working Papers
1. Quitterer J. and M. Walzl, 2024. A Powerful Universe – Levels of Powers. Dispositions and their applications in Science, Economics and Theology, mimeo.
2. Blanco, E., F. Holzmeister, R. Kerschbamer, and M. Walzl, 2022. The Economics of Label Credence Goods, mimeo.
3. Ulrichshofer, A. and M. Walzl, 2020. Social Comparison and Optimal Contracts in the Competition for Managerial Talent, Working Papers 2020-19, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck.
4. Kah, C. and M. Walzl, 2018. Stochastic Stability in a Learning Dynamic with Best Response to Noisy Play, Working Papers 2015-15, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck.
Grants and Prizes
1. FWF SFB63 (as one of six PIs) ”Incentives and Competition in Markets for Credence Goods” (1.2 Mio EUR as PI 2017-2026)
2. FWF Project 214417 (as PI) “Learning and Market Design” (284,000 EUR, 2016-2020)
3. Member EU Cost Action Computational Social Science IC1205 (2012-2016)
4. Grant ’Forskningsradet for Samfund og Erhverv (FSE)’ by Danish Agency of Science, Technology and Innovation “An Experimental Investigation of Employment Relations based on Subjective Performance Evaluations” – principal investigator: Alexander Sebald (Copenhagen University) (500,000 EUR)
5. Among Top 100 Economists under 40 in Handelsblatt 2012.
6. Grant ECO2009-07530 from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation “Matching: Theory and Experiments”– principal investigator: Marc Vorsatz (FEDEA Madrid). (45,000 EUR)
7. Extramural Fellow, METEOR, Universit¨at Maastricht (2008-2018)
Services
• Referee for BE Journal of Economic Theory, BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), Econometrica, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Games, Games and Economic Behavior, Informs Journal of Computing, International Journal of
Game Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics,
Management Accounting Review, Management Science, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Social Choice and Welfare, Theoretical Economics, Zentralblatt Mathematik and Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
• Member of Vereins fuer Socialpolitik (2001-), des Industrie¨okonomischen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik (2010-), German Association for Economics and Business (GEaBa) (2001-), Econometric Society (2002-), Royal Economic Society (2002-), Game Theory Society (2004-), Netherlands Network for Economics (2003-), Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2006-).
• Invited Talks (selection): Universit¨aten Bielefeld, ECARES Br¨ussel, Frankfurt School of Management and Finance, Hamburg, Harvard Business School, IAE Barcelona, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kiel, Lausanne, Maastricht University, Max-Planck Institute Jena, JKU Linz, Massey University Auckland, Regensburg, Rostock, Würzburg
Self-Administration
• Deputy Head of Research Focus EPoS (Economy, Politics, and Society) at Innsbruck University (since 2024)
• Member Ethics Board, Innsbruck University (since 2021)
• Member Clinical Ethics Committee, Tiroler Landeskrankenhaus, Innsbruck (seit 2020)
• Dean, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Innsbruck University (since 2017)
• Member of the Senate, Innsbruck University (2013-2022)
• Head of the Faculty Council, Innsbruck University (2013-16)
• Member of the Managing Board, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (2010-2011)
• Coordinator Track Competition and Regulation (Study: MSc. International Economics), Maastricht University (2005- 2008).
• Hiring Committees and Habilitation Procedures at RWTH Aachen, Maastricht University, Universität Bamberg, Universit¨at Augsburg, Wirtschaftsuniversit¨at Wien, Universit¨at Innsbruck, Queensland University, Dunedin University, TU Darmstadt et al.
Teaching
• Bachelor: Grundlagen der Volkswirtschaft, Microeconomics I and II, Industrial Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Competition Policy, Game Theory, Network Economics, Digital Markets.
• Master: Competition Policy, Information Economics, Advanced Microeconomics, Market Design, Social and Economic Networks, Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, Nachhaltigkeit und Verhalten.
• PhD: Microeconomics, Mechanism Design, Advanced Industrial Economics.
PhD Supervision
• Alexander Sebald (2004-2008), together with Georg Kirchsteiger
• Dominik Erharter (2011-2014), together with Rudolf Kerschbamer
• Christopher Kah (2010 - 2015)
• Fabian Petutschnig (2016- 2020)
• Benjamin Pichl (2016-2020)
• Philipp Plaickner (2016- 2022)
• Anna Ulrichshofer (2017 - 2022)
• Karolina Vocke (2017 - 2022)
• Andrea Erhart (2021 -)
• Elza Balayan (2024 - )